Mobile phones are emerging in endlessly nowadays, but have you noticed that Android phones, especially domestic Android phones, basically do not have a physical mute button like the iPhone!
No, but there are very few Android phones with this physical key. Why?
In fact, setting the mute button on the side is not a patent of the iPhone. This technology was first pioneered by Palm Company, and there is no patent threshold. Since there is no patent factor, why do so many Android phones not add a mute button on the side? This involves the difference between the Android and iOS systems.
Let’s talk about Apple first. Before iOS7, the iPhone did not have a control center. If you want to mute the phone without physical buttons, it requires a very complicated operation to achieve this function.
For business people and even office workers who often have meetings, muting is a very common function. Apple naturally understands the needs of users, so Apple has to set up this physical mute button on the iPhone.
Android is different.
Because Android is open source, its functionality in this area is much better than iOS, and it does not require complicated operations to mute the phone.
For example: long press the volume "-" to mute, slide the screen to mute, mute the status bar tool, turn the phone over to mute, and even customize the button mute and other functions, so Android is not that big at all It is necessary to add a mute physical key.
It is precisely for this reason that few Android mobile phone manufacturers are willing to add silent physical keys. After all, the cost is there. Although the unit price may not be expensive, multiplied by tens of millions of shipments , which is also a considerable expense. However, there is no doubt about the ease of use of the mute key. Although Android can turn on the mute function more conveniently, it is still slightly inferior to the physical keys.
Therefore, there are also conscientious Android phone manufacturers that have set up physical mute buttons, such as OnePlus 2.
And OnePlus 2 also adds a Do Not Disturb mode based on the iPhone, and the surface of the keys has also been treated with anti-slip treatment. Generally speaking, this mute button is more user-friendly than the iPhone's, and is more user-friendly than the iPhone's. In other words, it is also more comprehensive.
Compared with virtual keys, another advantage of physical mute keys is that there are no restrictions on usage scenarios.
Even in a dark night, without turning on the phone, you can easily mute it with physical buttons.
Although the iPhone is still the benchmark in the mobile phone industry, and many mobile phone manufacturers will follow suit, they will not blindly imitate everything it does.
In terms of the design of the mute button, the advantages of the Android system itself are more obvious. In addition, domestic users do not have a large demand for this, so there is no need to spend more money on Android phones. Added a mute key.